Ait Noumane, Atlas, August 2026

Edition XII

In April, Edition XI came to dig a well. In August, Edition XII came back for the mosque.

Chapter 00

The opening

A village in the Atlas, a well that gave no water, and a mosque that needed hands. This is the story of Edition XII, which came back after the well of Edition XI, told with the images DOF volunteers filmed themselves.

Chapter 01

The search for water

Edition XI · April 2026

The red track to the village, then the drilling rig on the slope.

The team drilled for a well. The water did not come.

Chapter 02

An unexpected turning point

The new mosque sign is fixed above the entrance

The mosque in the village

Without water, the trip could have ended there. Instead, the team looked at the village mosque.

It needed more room, a place for ablutions, and a space for women. The next edition would be built around it.

Chapter 03

The transformation

August 2026

Between April and August, we expanded the mosque, adding ablution facilities and a dedicated space for women.

Edition XII, a short documentary

Breaking the ground beside the mosque.

Paint, plaster, doors and windows: the work of August 2026.

A volunteer on a ladder repaints the blue door beneath the new mosque sign
A volunteer in a paint-stained apron at work inside the mosque
A volunteer paints a window frame from inside
A volunteer drills into a whitewashed wall
Two women in straw hats plant a young palm in red earth
Two women clearing ground among olive trees

Zellige set into the new wall.

Chapter 04

The legacy

Volunteers in djellabas stand before the renovated mosque entrance

Two firsts and a twelfth

Edition XII closed the twelfth edition of Aid to the Atlas Villages.

It also opened the first edition of Building the Houses of the Most Merciful: DOF's work on mosques, which began here, in the Mohammed Ibn Ali Amzil Mosque.